Difference between Claims vs OAuth

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Published on 2010-05-17T08:40:26Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 11:50 UTC
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What is the difference between Claims based authentication vs What is provided by OAuth.

I am looking for conceptual difference and not technical difference. When do I choose Claims over OAuth and vice versa.

Claims based authentication is proposed by Microsoft and build on top of WS-Security. But OAuth is more a open source protocol that is being proposed to allow fetching resources from different portals based on a security token.

Claims also has this concept of token (SAML encoded or X509 certificates).

I am trying to understand when do I choose Claims over OAuth and vice versa.

Thanks

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